OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14214639
MEMPHIS INDUSTRIAL TANK SERVICE
DRUMMONDS, TN·
Event description
PAINTER FALLS FROM SCAFFOLD AND IS KILLED
Investigation abstract
On October 5, 1985, Employee #1, a painter employed by Memphis Industrial Tank S ervice, was on a Boatswain's Chair scaffold suspended by manila rope. The rope b roke. Employee #1 fell 70 feet and sustained a fatal concussion.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 8
- Occupation code
- 579
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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